Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost as often as they wonder when Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson will retire, Washington pundits speculate on who will succeed him. Last week a logical candidate moved closer to the job. Into the second-in-command post of Deputy Secretary went slight (5 ft. 9 in., 140 Ibs.), mild-mannered Donald A. Quarles, 62. In 1955 Industrial Scientist Quarles (Western Electric, Bell Labs) succeeded the late Harold Talbott as Air Force Secretary, impressed Wilson and Washington by quietly, capably directing a crack Air Force. At Defense, Quarles succeeds Reuben Robertson Jr., who is leaving after two years to return...
After 20 months of hiding, the slight, balding clothing salesman made a mistake. He dickered with a Miami Beach car dealer and got a good trade-in on his battered '54 Oldsmobile. The auto dealer made a routine title check with Brookline, Mass., where the car had been bought. When the clothing salesman picked up his new Chevrolet, a Massachusetts state police lieutenant and a Miami cop arrested him. The charge: kidnaping...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 28--Yale's powerful swimming team received a slight jolt in the first event of the 34th NCAA Championships here last night. Michigan's Fritz Myers pulled even with the Elis' Ray Ellison at the three-quarters mark in the 1500-meter freestyle, then stroked on to upset the Eastern champion in 19:04.8. This ties the Tar Heel Pool record set in 1949 by N. Heusner of North-western...
...result is an infinitely complex music which bears some slight resemblance to modern jazz and Schoenberg's twelve-tone system. The wonder to Westerners is that the ancient music of India is also the nation's most popular music. It has caught on so rapidly during the last decade that Shankar and other top artists (who get up to $2,000 a performance) have no difficulty drawing crowds of 40,000 to open-air music festivals...
Despite some doubts over the immediate outlook, businessmen were making only slight changes in expansion plans. After first predicting an 8% increase in new plant and equipment spending in 1957, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commerce Department took another reading and revised the figures. The amended totals would probably hit $37.5 billion, an increase of 64% instead of 8%. Even so, it would still be the greatest outpouring of expansion money in history...